We are please to announce the release of Spring Security 4.0.0.RC1. This release resolved 40 tickets. You can find a highlight of the changes below.

• Updated Defaults - As security evolves, so does Spring Security. We took this opportunity to ensure that the defaults were more secure. For example, the XML Namespace support now enables CSRF protection by default.
• Polish WebSocket Security - We received very valuable feedback from the community which allowed us to polish the WebSocket security. We also added XML Namespace configuration support for WebSocket security. Details can be found on the update blog Preview Spring Security WebSocket Support
• Minimum Dependency Versions - The minimum dependency…

I am pleased to announce that Spring for Android 2.0.0.M2 is now available in the Spring milestone repository. Highlights include:

• Support for the Android port of HttpClient 4.3 via HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory
• Support for HttpClient 4.0 included with Android is now deprecated but will remain available through HttpComponentsAndroidClientHttpRequestFactory.
• HTTP PATCH support in RestTemplate
• The type conversion package from Spring Core is now available in Spring for Android Core.
• Many improvements and fixes from Spring 3.2 are now merged into Spring for Android to bring baseline compatibility to Spring 3.2, while certain RestTemplate features from Spring 4.1 have been included to support the new HttpClient.
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On behalf of the team I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Spring Framework 4.1.3.

Spring Framework 4.1.3 is our third maintenance release in the 4.1.x line and comes with over 50 fixes and improvements. It was initially scheduled for late December but we decided to release it early to incorporate user-suggested and user-contributed improvements right in time for the scheduled Spring Boot 1.2 release this week.

We are still planning on another release later this month (4.1.4) at which point 4.1.x will turn into a maintenance branch, with active development on 4.2 happening on…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the new release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.6.3 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.6.3.

Highlights from this release include:

• Pivotal tc Server updated to 3.0.2 (incl. Spring Insight on Java8)
• Cloud Foundry for Eclipse now pre-installed
• Many new Spring Integration extensions supported in the graphical Spring Integration editor
• Gradle tooling has better handling for auto mapping of jar dependencies to project dependencies

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/ggts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.6.3 New & Noteworthy.

STS/GGTS 3.6.4 is scheduled to ship in March 2015, shortly after the Eclipse Luna SR2 release.

Enjoy!

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I am happy to announce the first milestone of the Spring Data Release train Fowler.

The release ships 170 tickets fixed, 119 of them unique to the Fowler release train. Find a curated changelog here. The highlights of the release include:

• Upgrades to Spring 4.0.8 and Querydsl 3.6.0.
• Performance improvements in converter subsystem by using byte-code generation.
• Out-of-the-box support for JSR-310 date/time types (MongoDB).
• Various (performance) improvements in the usage of SpEL (JPA).
• Support for $bit, $mul and $position operators (MongoDB).
• Improved proxy-id detection for JPA and REST.
• Introdcution of QueryDslPredicateExceutor.findAll(OrderSpecifier<?>... orders) (Querydsl).
• CDI repository extension for Cassandra module.
• Upgrade to Gemfire 8 (Gemfire).
• Version property based ETag generation (REST).
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Spring Roo 1.3.1 RC1 Release Candidate is available.

Spring Roo jar files have been published to Maven Central. As always, the release is available in the Spring IO repository.

The candidate release fixes serious issues:

• running reverse engineering.
• installing third-party addons.

It is highly recommended that all Spring Roo users upgrade to this version.

For full details on the changes made in the release, please refer to the Release Note in Jira.

For more project specific information please see the Project Page and GitHub

Thanks to the awesome users who came up with useful bug reports and suggestions. This is a candidate release, please try out the updates and provide feedback. As always, you'll also find Roo on Twitter - either follow @SpringRoo or just include #SpringRoo in your tweets. Stay tuned!

Spring Cloud 1.0.0.M3 is available now in the repo.spring.io repository. The following projects all had a 1.0.0.M3 release:

• Spring Cloud Config: centralized key-value (or YAML) configuration management. Now supports the config server being fully embedded in another application.

• Spring Cloud Netflix. Also has better support for embeddability of the server components. Now also properly records load balancer statistics in Ribbon-enabled Spring RestTemplate.

• Spring Cloud for Amazon Web Services. Has new Spring Boot integration points, externalizing configuration for AWS metadata.

• Spring Cloud Security: super simple OAuth2 in a declarative style.

• Spring Cloud Bus: broadcasts framework-level events to Spring Cloud components. Big news here is that we now have a RabbitMQ-based aggregator for Hystrix metrics (based on Turbine 2), so you don't have to rely on having direct HTTP access to all service instances.

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Dear Spring community,

As we promised in the Release Candidate blog post, we are pleased to announce that the Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0 GA is now available. As usual, use the Release Repository with Maven or Gradle, or download a distribution archive, to give it a spin.

See the project home page for more information.

First of all, we are glad to share with you that on Nov 12, 2014, DZone research recognized Spring Integration as the leader in the ESB / Integration framework space, leading with 42% marketshare, in a publication of their recent survey results. And the report is…

I am pleased to announce that the second release candidate for Spring Boot 1.2.0 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. This is mainly a bug fix release, although we did manage to sneak in a fantastic community contribution which adds support for Undertow as an embedded Servlet container.

For a complete list of changes, and for upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.2 Release Notes on the WIKI. The reference documentation has also been updated to cover new features.

As usual, please report any problems using the project Issue tracker.